Background: Headache is one of the most popular clinical presentations especially in children. The aim of this study was to study the prevalence of migraine and tension headache and its related factors among the students of Guidance schools in Yazd city.Methods: It was a descriptive and cross-sectional study implemented in 2008 in Yazd city. The study group consisted of 930 school children....

Studies of headache risk factors are numerous but their results are based on clinics and hospitals. Few data have been reported in children. No data are available regarding migraine and tension-type headache risk factors among Iranianchildren. Therefore we determined the sociodemographic risk factors of migraine and tension-type headaches and their correlations in schoo...

Introduction & Objective: Mechanisms underlying migraine precipitation are largely unknown. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection has recently been associated with various extraintestinal pathologies and migraine. The relation between Helicobacter pylori and Migraine is controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation of the H. pylori infection with migraine. Materi...

This research aimed to measure the epidemiology of migraine headaches in female students and the impact of Fordyce’s happiness training on decreasing symptoms of migraine and increasing happiness in university students. A total of 320 female students of Persian Gulf University in Bushehr were screened and 30 students suffering from migraine were selected and randomly assigned to an experi...

Introduction: Migraine is the most common type of chronic headache. Stress can trigger migraine and effect on the duration of migraine attacks. . One of the main reasons of job stress is inappropriate job design. The aim of the current study was to investigate the new cases of migraine regarding models of effort-reward imbalance and demand-control imbalance in job. Methods: Two job designs n...

Abstract Background and purpose: Migraine is a kind of primary headache that involves neurovascular system. Some studies have shown that obesity could affect the severity, frequency and duration of migraine attacks. This study aimed at investigating the association between anthropometric measurements and severity, frequency and duration of headache in patients with migraine. Material and me...

  Background & Aims : Migraine is a very painful headache and most people affected with it have multiple attacks of headache for many years. The complications of migraine are associated with missing out on school and weakening of students’ academic performance. The current study was conducted to determine the prevalence of migraine and the frequency of some of its triggers in high school studen...